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A member of Clare 's coterie of Bohemians. He is identified as an "advocate of Free Love, Alwato, the proposed universal language, or the Volapük of that day, and author of the 'Basic Outline of Universology,' and by general consent Pantarch of the Universe. He said Ada was a spark from the divine fire, the over soul" (103).

A member of Clare's coterie of Bohemians. He is identified as "the apostle of Fourierism in America, and later the inventor of the proposed tubular railway, or hollow ball way" (103). He ran a commune in Strawberry Farms, New Jersey, that George Arnold was also a part of (105).

Referred to Clare as the "queen" of the Bohemian circle at Pfaff's, Rawson describes the coterie that Clare gathered at her home in Forty-Second Street. In contrast to Henry Clapp's "evil influences of pipe, beer, cynic jokes," Clare provided a congenial atmosphere for the Pfaffians during her Sunday night receptions. Rawson ascribes to Clare a pivotal in maintaining the Bohemian society during this time: "Ada Clare was magnetic in addition to her mental brightness and store of maternal treasures inherited from her family, and with her wealth and beauty she attracted the higher grades of men and women."(103)

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